Health Archives - Page 16 of 17

Hope Collaborative

September 28, 2015 Mustafa Solomon

Hope Collaborative is a collective of Bay Area organizations and community residents that works to help families and youth work towards healthy living in East and West Oakland. Officially, it has been around for 7 years,

Street Level – a safety net of the safety net

September 21, 2015 Bill Joyce

Health clinic volunteer Hermalinda Aguiar leaned forward and said, “We have a saying: ‘Panza llena, corazón contento; Full belly, a happy heart.’” In a phrase, the recent San Francisco State alumna captures the mission of

Hip Hop Therapy/ Beats Rhymes and Life

September 18, 2015 Angela Scott

Imagine walking into your therapist’s office and seeing hip hop album covers hanging from the wall. To your immediate left is a stage and like the rest of the room, it is being renovated by

What if They Held a Dinner and Everyone was Able to Eat

May 20, 2015 Tom Webb

“What if they held a dinner and everyone was able to eat?” This is the question 385 anti-hunger advocates posed to their state assembly representatives last week in Sacramento. Busloads of multicultural citizen activists

Oakland CROP walkers take one step at a time against hunger

April 29, 2015 Tom Webb

While Bay Area landlords, developers and real estate investors wildly cheer the latest housing boom, spiraling rents and housing prices, a small number of local residents responded Saturday morning to a more somber fact for

Canticle Farms: Dancing on the Horizon

March 27, 2015 Tom Webb

[slideshow_deploy id=’8273′] When one hears the word “farm,” all sorts of images cross one’s mind. The idyllic world described in the childhood nursery rhyme “Old McDonald.” Small truck farms located on the margins of country

Breathless in the 94621

March 26, 2015 Gerald Green

Children growing up with asthma are a reality for families living in the 94621. “The most polluted zip code in Oakland,” said Nehanda Imara, an organizer with Communities for a Better Environment (CBE). “We need

The InterTribal Friendship House: A Tradition of Growing

February 20, 2015 Sara Rowley

It’s a sunny and clear Valentine’s Day morning, and young and old arrive at the InterTribal Friendship House (or IFH) to ready the community garden for spring. There are trays of seedlings that need to

Movement fair – staying healthy

October 29, 2014 Sara Rowley

Oakland Voices asks booth hosts at Tassafaronga Park’s Oakland Movement Festival: “What do you think is the biggest health issue facing our community today?”

Prostate Cancer Dream Theft

October 14, 2014 Gerald Green

Aren’t all men in America entitled to a life full of hopes and dreams? Unfortunately, prostate cancer kills many more African-American men than other ethnic groups in that pursuit. It is a disturbing reality facing